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    Challenges→Boys develop a psychological motive to deprecate and dominate women.

    Even granting that separation anxiety generates some hostility, hostility toward a source of anxiety does not logically entail a stable motive to dominate that source, as Freud's own ambivalence literature demonstrates.

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    Key Terms

    Ambivalence(as explored in Freud's research on mixed emotions)
    Having two conflicting feelings or desires about something at the same time, like both loving and resenting someone.
    Dominate(as the potential outcome being questioned)
    To have power or control over someone or something; to rule or command.
    Freud(as a historical figure referenced in the statement)
    Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian psychologist who founded psychoanalysis and argued that many of our behaviors are driven by unconscious desires and childhood experiences.
    Hostility(as contrasted with identification)
    In this context, it means approaching someone or something with antagonism, opposition, or a closed mind rather than openness.
    Separation anxiety

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    (as the starting point for the argument)
    Intense fear or distress that someone feels when separated from a person they're attached to, usually studied in psychology and child development.
    Stable motive(as what hostility doesn't necessarily create)
    A consistent, lasting desire or reason to do something that doesn't change easily.
    logically entail(describing logical relationships between ideas)
    To necessarily follow from something; if A logically entails B, then B must be true whenever A is true.

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